Photo attachments to Gmail

I had this thing happen to me. I received an Email with four photos attached. The mail, originally, just displayed the four icons that I could tap to download the photos. I downloaded two and they displayed fine in the mail message and I could tap on them to save to the photo album. When I download the third and the fourth photo these were not displayed in the mail message but a line of text.jpg (untapable) appeared as text for each of the additional photos. I found this strange. Is this because of limited memory? Each of the photos was about 4-5 MB.
What is the best way to handle such photo attachments so that you do not loose any of the photos into cyberspace?

Hi Paisinho!
There should not be a memory problem as of course the photo app works fine!
Try downloading these images on a computer, and if you cannot access them, then these attachments, have been lost into the 'cyberspace', contact google for information if this happens.
If they do download on a computer, then there may be some issue with compatibility. (Although you say the text ends in .jpg which should be fine). First try going to gmail.com on your iPad. Either use the Basic HTML version or the iPad specific version. See if that works and get back to me.
Hope this helps.

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